Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 428: Mark Wigmore

In this 428th episode, Mike chats with radio broadcaster Mark Wigmore about his years at Newstalk 1010, Proud FM, CBC and Jazz FM, and his new podcast, Art at the End of the World. This episode is exactly 1:51:46.

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Fantastic job with this one!! Undoubtedly my favourite from the fairly recent run of shows with
former JazzFM personalities. Arts Toronto was an incredible ongoing series and I always found it
quite captivating, even when I might not have had any prior knowledge or interest in some of
the featured subjects/topics. Mr. Wigmore's passion for the arts is clearly evident and he is
a fantastic interviewer. Looking forward to checking out his new podcast in the very near
future.

Again, his frank candor about the JazzFm debacle was also greatly appreciated. The current state
of this once-great station, with only two weekday live-on air personalities (Brad Barker and John Devenish) and canned programming the rest of the time is weak. Personally, I think that the
station would be better off giving opportunities to local post-secondary students (both in broad-
casting and music). A bunch of shows hosted by Ross Porter cronies doesn't really seem like a
successful long-term plan. Here's to the hopefu quickl success of Jazzcast and that eventually there will
be a place for Marc on there as well.